Windows Phone 7 ads

Yesterday Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7. I don’t normally blog about tech news, but being an ex employee of Microsoft, I tend to watch news around that company a little bit more closely.

Media reaction to the new device appears a little mixed. Wired love it, whilst others like TechCrunch have written it off. Personally I am not sure which way it will go. Microsoft has been playing in the phone space for a long time now and not really made a massive impact or created a strong consumer demand, but you can never right off the Redmond based organisation.

The ads unveiled at the press conference by Crispin Porter + Bokogusky though are very clever. I have embedded the two launch executions below, which you should check out. They do a nice job of promoting the phone by downplaying the role our phones should play in our life. Beautifully shot in what appears to be the US and Europe, it will be interesting to see how they impact demand for the device. Shame there is not any Asia shots though.

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That was a good advertisement but I’m a little bit concern about the effects. The fact that it shows addiction to people. I mean, look at them. Though there’s an accident, still they’re more focus on their phone.